Your Highness

Fresh off an Oscar nomination for James Franco and Oscar win for Natalie Portman, both, alongside Danny McBride from the hilarious mini-series Eastbound and Down, star in the newest Universal comedy, Your Highness, and exemplify how you can pick a great movie one day and your next can be a total, utter dud. This was the worst movie I have seen in theaters in a really really really really long time. The only reason I sat in my seat and stayed for the entire thing is literally so I could give a completely objective opinion on this blog and check if there were any redeeming parts to the movie. There weren’t.

Have you ever seen a comedy where you were just dumbfounded because you couldn’t figure out what was funny and the entire audience had scattered nervous giggles because people are just so uncomfortable? yup, that was us yesterday.

Question: When did rape and child molestation become something that was funny? Oh, never, that’s right. Ok, I’m actually totally a fan of some forms of shock humor, Sarah Silverman, for example, I think is hilarious though a lot of people find her offensive. This movie was just not funny, not well written, and not even that well executed.

To give credit where credit is due, I felt that the main cast did as much as they could with what they were given. They just didn’t have that much to work with. Which I completely puzzled by because Danny McBride was one of the executive producers. Danny! You’re so funny in Eastbound and Down! What happened? Did you have some deep intestinal pain, a hernia perhaps, that pained you so much that you couldn’t channel your inner funny man? Were you so high and wasted that you didn’t bother checking to see if your comedy was actually funny? Did anyone actually read the script before joining this cursed mess? I just completely do not understand what happened, how so much fell through the cracks with such a palate of talented actors…$1

You likely won’t heart Your Highness but in the spirit of providing recommendations

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This movie was hilarious, yo. You got virgin rape, severed penis, pedophilia, Zooey Deschanel’s big tits, and masturbation with Medieval oils. Need I say more? Except that this movie was entirely improvised – that is some s-k-i-l-l. Let your inner (perverted) child loose and get ready for some big laughs.